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(0)Mead & Company Dodd
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First published in 1899, "Lyrics of the Hearthside" is a collection of poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). This volume contains a collection of Dunbar's powerful poetry for the enjoyment of a new generation. A fantastic collection that offers a unique glimpse into the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century.
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A hard-luck gambler begs Fortune for an alibi, drawing the one-armed detective into a murder case
Once, Sammy Weiss had a shot at the big time. A two-bit gambler who stumbled into a high-stakes craps game, he got lucky at the right time, and was two rolls away from millions when his nerve failed. Rather than shoot for the big money, he walked away with his winnings, taking $160,000 and the bitter knowledge that he could have won it all. Since
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Dominic Vennezio, crime czar of Southern California, is found on the floor of his beachside love nest, murdered on a Sunday night. It looks like an ordinary mob hit, part of a routine power struggle with the East Coast Outfit, but Vennezio's widow has other suspicions. Her marriage to the kingpin had been strained ever since he began taking his secretary for weekends at the beach house, but even now, she feels a devotion to him. She wants justice...
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Mistaken identity and intrigue abound in this classic mystery tale In the midst of a high-society masquerade ball, someone pulls off a daring heist. Several gold plates have been stolen, their value estimated at $15,000. Even more shocking is the fact that the crime seems to have been committed by a guest attired as a burglar, the costume complete with a loaded revolver! Hiding in plain sight, the thief escapes with his loot and drives off with his...
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Praised by The New York Times as "a true singer of the people — white or black," Paul Laurence Dunbar published this short story collection in 1904, two years before his untimely death. The son of freed slaves, Dunbar was best known for his dialect pieces as well as distinguished for his poetry and prose in standard English.
These sixteen tales of the daily lives of African Americans in the post–Civil War South examine the promise...
These sixteen tales of the daily lives of African Americans in the post–Civil War South examine the promise...
8) The big heat
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Murder was in the air. A cop had killed himself, and every crook in town knew that would be sure to bring on the big heat.
It all started innocently enough, when a cop committed suicide. It was worry over ill health, said his wife. Detective Dave Bannion wasn't so sure, but when he started digging, he was told to lay off—fast! Instead, he turned in his badge and started stalking the city streets and bars in search of the truth. There
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In a San Francisco apartment building, a young woman is found strangled beside a piano player with a broken neck. He's a nobody -- a dreamer with little talent and no future -- but she is Roberta Grinnel, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the Bay Area. Stephen Drake, crime reporter for the Sentinel, feels nothing when he looks at their corpses, and this is a troubling fact. For Drake is a psychic, and when his sixth sense fails him, that means...
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This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1923. 'The Step on the Stair' is a must read for fans of one of the first American authors to write in the detective fiction genre. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known...
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The situation is a nightmare waiting to happen -- a racist ex-con gets drawn into the planning of a heist by a crooked ex-cop, and they are forced to include a young black man who is in debt to a mobster. What can go wrong does go wrong in Odds Against Tomorrow, a bleak, mesmerizing thriller by William P. McGivern, published in 1957 and reminiscent of the novels of W.R. Burnett.
An ex-con named Earl Slater and a disgraced former cop named Dave Burke...
12) Mother
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Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing a biography of Ulysses S. Grant and the novel The Virginian, in which Wister created the archetypal cowboy.
13) More
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This 1899 collection of humorous sketches includes "Some Words on Royalty," "Actors," "Madame Tussaud's," "Pretending," "An Infamous Brigade," "The Sea-Side in Winter," "Sign-Boards," "The Blight on the Music Halls," "Prangley Valley," "Fashion and Her Bicycle," "Going Back to School," "A Cloud of Pinafores," "At Covent Garden," and "The Case of Prometheus."
14) Omoo
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A failed mutiny lands the narrator in a Tahitian jail where he and his companion, Doctor Long Ghost, are treated with curiosity and kindness. After their eventual release, the two embark on a series of adventures as they work at odd jobs, view traditional rites and customs on the island, and contrive an audience with the Tahitian queen. Thought-provoking, humorous glimpses of a vanished 19th-century world in the South Seas.
15) The red lily
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In this 1894 love story, an egotistical woman seeks to rearrange her domestic situation in such a way as to replace a man she merely likes with one she deeply loves. The result is tragedy.
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No one wants to send Freddie Brent - now motherless, abandoned by an alcoholic father presumed dead - to the orphanage. But the church ladies already have too many children of their own to feed and so many other burdens to bear. Miss Hester Prime, spinster, completely inexperienced in the art of child raising, astonishes them all by declaring that it is her "dooty" to take the child in and save it from the fate of his sinful parents. That she does....
17) My study fire
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My Study Fire (Second Series), which was first published in 1894, comprises a collection of essays written by the late-nineteenth century American essayist Hamilton Wright Mabie. Described as "reflective considerations of life in essay form that crystallize truths via apt sentences, digestible phrases, and suggestions" and "homelike, comfortable, engaging truths with a cozy exterior, beneath which lie close analysis, keen judgment, ethical suggestions,...
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"After her return from the trip across the lake with the bridal party, the Dolphin lay at anchor near the White City for a week or more; there were so many interesting and beautiful exhibits at the Fair still unseen by them that Captain Raymond, his family, and guests scarce knew how to tear themselves away."--Amazon.com
20) Elsie at Ion
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"Elsie and Cousin Ronald discover a long-lost cousin, Marian McAlpine, while Harold and Herbert Travilla graduate from Princeton. Long-time bachelors Calhoun and Arthur Conly find brides, and another family member begins to give her life over to God. A book about trusting in God's protective care."--Amazon.com